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Ne W Burysprin G Fe Stival www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 34th international newburyspringfestival 12 – 26 may 2012 Royal Philharmonic Sat Welcome Orchestra 12th This year, when London hosts the Owain Arwel Hughes conductor Olympic Games and welcomes the Freddy Kempf piano world’s finest young athletes to the Walton Crown Imperial capital, I am delighted that we will Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 “Emperor” welcome to Newbury so many Brahms Symphony No 4 outstanding musicians from around the world. Among them are important young musicians who are already building A welcome return to the Festival by the RPO, and conductor careers in Britain: this year’s John Lewis Young Stars , Owain Arwel Hughes in his 70th birthday year, in a and our Festival artist Johan Andersson, one of the world’s celebratory concert that opens with Walton’s Crown Imperial in honour of HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. finest young painters, who is also based in this country. The current season sees dynamic British pianist Freddy This national celebration of international youthful excellence Kempf perform the complete cycle of piano concertos in sport and culture is balanced by another important by his favourite composer, Beethoven, in many of the UK’s national celebration: the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, an most important venues and tonight he joins the orchestra opportunity to honour a monarch who has been on the for the majestic Piano Concerto No 5, popularly known as throne for sixty years and who represents all that is constant the “Emperor Concerto”. The concert ends with Brahms’ and traditional in our country. You will find in this year’s final and best loved Symphony No 4. concert programme some music associated with Her St Nicolas Church, Newbury RG14 5HG Majesty and within our expanded series of Festival talks, 7.30pm (ends approx 9.40pm) a couple which relate to the Jubilee. £35 £25 £15 For a Festival such as ours, which takes place in such www.rpo.co.uk quintessentially English surroundings, with its lovely churches www.freddy-kempf.com and historic houses, these twin themes of British tradition and Sponsored by international youthful excellence sum up what Newbury Spring Greenham Common Trust Festival is all about. Celebrating both the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee, the 2012 Festival promises to be a vintage one, and with your support it will be. Welcome to the Festival! Mark Eynon Festival Director 2 box office 01635 522733 www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 3 Sat Blazin’ Fiddles Sound Beginnings Sun 12th Concert for babies and young children 13th Scotland’s award winning fiddle band A concert especially for young children given in the beautiful Oak Room of Sheepdrove ECO Conference Centre on the Fiddles and bows blaze away with guitar and piano for Berkshire Downs. A magical musical journey with song, one of the most exciting and memorable fiddle ensembles music and movement will be presented by operatic baritone ever to take the stage. Scotland’s award winning group and actor Richard Morris and the acclaimed pianist Mikhail draws the distinct flavour of fiddle music from regions of Kazakevich. This year’s theme “Carnival of the Animals” will the highlands and islands and, from solo to ensemble sets, give plenty of scope for children to participate in a selection they all come together in a fiery blend that raises the roof. of music by Saint-Saëns and other composers. Fiddlers Bruce Macgregor, Allan Henderson, Jenna Reid and Iain Macfarlane with Anna Massie on guitar/fiddle and Bring your imagination, plus a cushion or blanket, and Andy Thorburn on keyboard capture the excitement, enjoy this opportunity to explore music with your children. passion and sensitivity of Scottish music. Home baked organic nursery food will be served after each concert. Ticket holders are also welcome to picnic in the Corn Exchange, adjoining herb garden. Newbury RG14 5BD 7.30pm (ends approx 9.30pm) Sheepdrove Eco Conference Centre, Lambourn £18 10.30am & 12.30pm £9.50 adults www.blazin-fiddles.co.uk £6.50 children over 2 years £1.00 babies and children under 2 years Unreserved seating Prices include homemade nursery tea, coffee and biscuits Supported by the Sheepdrove Trust “Absolutely mindblowing.” Mike Harding BBC Radio 2 4 box office 01635 522733 www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 5 Sun Morriston Sun 13th Orpheus Choir The Olympianist 13th Internationally acclaimed Welsh Choir Joy Amman Davies musical director Kathryn McAdam mezzo soprano Enjoying an international reputation as a leading exponent of male choral singing, the Morriston Orpheus Choir is in constant demand. Often referred to as the “Ambassadors of Song” and, with its broad repertoire, variety is the hallmark of a concert by this renowned choir. In this afternoon’s concert the choir will be joined by Kathryn McAdam, the 2011 Young Welsh Singer of the Year. Kathryn gives regular recital, gala, and oratorio performances throughout the country having sung in venues such as St John’s Smith Square, Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican. She is now in her final year of postgraduate study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Corn Exchange, Newbury RG14 5BD 3.00pm (ends approx 5.30pm) £16 www.morristonorpheus.com Anthony Hewitt, his bike & a piano in tow Sponsored by Internationally renowned pianist and avid cyclist Anthony Greenham Common Trust Hewitt is the Olympianist. To celebrate the London Olympics 2012, and raise money for good causes, he is cycling the length of Britain, from Land’s End to John O’Groats, with his piano trailing behind in a van. At the end of each gruelling leg of the ride he will give a recital from the back of his touring van – come and show your support for the Olympianist who might even include some music by Van Beethoven in his programme! See the Festival website for details of how to get involved in the Olympianist’s visit to Newbury. Market Place, Newbury 4.00pm (ends approx 5.00pm) Free www.olympianist.com / www.westberksenjoy.org.uk The Olympianist’s Newbury visit is supported by West Berkshire Council 6 box office 01635 522733 www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 7 Sun Mon 13th The Grand Tour Fournier Piano Trio 14th Young Artists Lunchtime Recital 1 His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts Sulki Yu violin Jeremy West cornett Pei-Jee Ng cello Jamie Savan cornett Chiao-Ying Chang piano Abigail Newman alto & tenor sackbut Adam Woolf alto & tenor sackbut Fauré Trio in D minor Op 120 Steve Saunders bass sackbut Bridge Miniatures for Piano Trio (selection) Ravel Trio in A minor The education of an English gentleman in the seventeenth century was not considered complete unless he had Formed in 2009, the Fournier Piano Trio is rapidly emerging undertaken the Grand Tour: a journey of cultural discovery as one of the UK’s leading young piano trios. Winners of through continental Europe. Tonight’s Grand Tour starts in both 2nd Prize and Audience Prize at the 6th Trondheim England before setting sail to Germany and then on to Spain International Chamber Music Competition in 2011, the Trio and Italy. The final stop is Venice, the European centre of is mentored by renowned pedagogues Christopher Elton, cornett and sackbut playing par excellence in the sixteenth David Takeno, Thomas Brandis and Michael Dussek. They and seventeenth centuries. recently made their critically acclaimed Purcell Room debut as part of the 2011 PLG New Year Series and are winners Sit back and enjoy the Tour as the Abbey reverberates with of a Philharmonia Orchestra MMSF Recital Award and a the magnificent sound of period brass performed by one of Tunnell Trust Award. today’s finest early music ensembles. The Trio’s lunchtime programme includes a selection of the Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton RG7 5TQ charming Bridge Miniatures which link the larger works by 7.45pm (ends approx 9.45pm) Fauré and Ravel. £22.50 £19.50 Corn Exchange, Newbury RG14 5BD www.hmsc.co.uk 12.30pm (ends approx 1.30pm) Sponsored by The Sackler Foundation £8 (Series ticket for all 6 lunchtime recitals £32) and Sir Hugh and Lady Stevenson www.fourniertrio.com Supported by The Headley Trust “the effect is electrifying.” Fanfare 8 box office 01635 522733 www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 9 Mon Lucinda Dickens Innovation Mon 14th Hawksley Chamber Ensemble 14th Festival Talk 1 Musicians of the City of Birmingham Dickens at 200 – An Illustrated Talk Symphony Orchestra Lucinda Dickens Hawksley is a respected art historian and Richard Jenkinson conductor public speaker on Victorian art and literature. She is also the Claire Prewer soprano great great great granddaughter of Charles Dickens and Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Patron of the Dickens House museum. Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Lucinda will talk about her new book “Charles Dickens”, Mahler Symphony No 4 a definitive illustrated guide to the man and his works which Principal musicians of the CBSO who have worked together she has written to commemorate his bicentenary. It follows for many years formed the Innovation Chamber Ensemble Dickens from early childhood, including his time spent as in 2002 and have received rave reviews for their a child labourer, and looks at how he became the greatest performances and recordings. Tonight’s programme of celebrity of his age – and how he still remains recognized chamber arrangements of late romantic master works as one of England’s greatest celebrities, even in the twenty- includes Wagner’s sublime Wesendonck Lieder, written first century. during the composition of Tristan und Isolde, inspired by Shaw House, Church Road, Shaw RG14 2DR his love affair with Mathilde Wesendonck, the author of the 3.00pm (ends approx 4.30pm to include book signing) poems.
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